The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-06-26
11~rR CREEKS BAD MAN
,.,,tnal Citizen Who Whom made
rp e., eT Miserable for the People,

Nsy Let milk OF C ~ neece
Ties he universal peoorth
Cpr93ssIL5 al the unity on car ILL., ~
c''torIo that I am from Bitter
Il adni t W, F. Robbins at the Russ $
GEEK, sSlu - T. Il can't help it, |
Boass yes sSars, and now cant very well
70, rom 'I 9or keeps. Besides, why
&c: away ~ an doing very well there
'n9 3 i ike the place Dad Man from
Filter .ssE. S5' things make we weary Ne"
These 5,io 'I clerks and Others perhaps
70 the ,a5e, the remark, but awfully old
70 me. ron half supposed this Bit.
you say yo ot I cast the Bad Man part
Ter Breek OF @n.otbetical? Not q bit OF
dit to De ny yd P map. You'll find one
It. Consul J IN ny wyoming. two in All
Bitter CIe' and possibly two, IN Y tan'
cons, one 2,, aTs and one in California.
one ,lS, lr all are small stIea nm nav SIM,
a a be called rivers a. SOu ~
pose. .bo genuine and historic
We'll, tAe asonthwestern Montana
stream Is ii hoe hail from. The
sal isl is no miles long, ana emItie' in'0
csse e9Iark's Fork Of the columns ioIIa~ nomed
the T SET had man was fellow nam ndi
-. : Vornt an exceedingly ROCKY a anGtr
JIM mi tO who came there IN very SAY say
ylaasi'f rom %l Tennessee. NOBODY kn eSt
times va LTD date for he was ahead OF moSs
tne. ed Else. He was none Oh your your
eVs every ooa1nered' sort OF men HlaGe
,-LhnTSrasented to be. Originally In
was ,a aSpasI suppose he was KNOB
I I9aa. and IS be grew older he rapidly
grew woIsT INV word, be was the most
pou ,;ntictiye man l ever heard OIL
{ic1Q ;c;.lT aarned his title. We heard ne
ne Ia..- r5on~derer in Tennessee OF thTee-
Sa was, q rIaTmates in school Whom ne
92ys' y TSs He sIoped to Missouri and
q.lt am. an old gentleman, in whose en-
Ail . w. ." 1-o U Because the old man lnsls-
P99l an rs liz %' getting up at o'clock IN the
mo oTa Siazad his way in this manner
n. ne - of1SfnaIiy to the west. One OF
P ~. frsf deeds, which the pioneers OF
W5rt tsT ~ecolect, was the shooting OH
4 iI1.b ea ,CsV of bulIwhacker by Jim.
% Tim Tim saw blm driving along, and re
lied N friend that he thought he
ND make a center-shOt on the team
- big ear The friend doubted 1t,
and he LET her 20. He struck the audit
g., onDaraf7s nIum in the middle. Be
fo[s The tegDster could clap his hand on
me shot ear Wback went a ball through
the other one. ~
yhacker ii be didn't want him to pre-
entbim with q couple Of earbods, since
he had such nice round holes to put
them IN.
His next deed was to burn school
house-s0me twenty miles away. He
claimed the children made faces at him
as be was going along one day, and he'd
be hsnged il he'd have such kids to
grow up to know any more than he did.
IN dispute with two confederates
shout some stolen horses in 80, year
after this sChool-house episode,
be killed both of them, took
slI the stock and gobbled
their money. He didn't even bury the
fellows but left their bodies lying only
fifty yards or so from the corral.
But his best hold was in the saloons.
He'd drink barrel of whisky every few
dsys-nO soft drinks for him-Whisky
every time. He had a bleared, blotched
tsce, that looked like chrome, and his
Oaths and language in general was
something trghtful to hear.
u don't reCollect a crime in those
esrly days that he didn't commit. He
held up stages, stole bullion and robbed
mails with impunity. Nobody molested
him. Everybody feigned not to know
who did it, and everybody went around
cHnglngly asking Jim as they patted
hlR on the back, 10 take drink. Quite
often he'd get mad at this even, and tell
them to have care how they came
SOLDERING around him or he'd shoot the
top OF their heads off.
Jim played many brilliant engage
menJS OF this sort around Virginia City,
II Montana, Boulder City and other
places. His Bitter Greek ranch was
only rendezvous for him, sort of a
central or pivotal point, where he and
fellow thieves round up their stolen
horses and cattle.
Jim ran along for several years in
THIS way, cutting, shooting and killing
until ne boasted himself that two grave
yards wouldn't hold the people that he
had laid away.
In 81, however, Jim made one trip
TOO often to Helena. He had made his
record over there. But the rich placers
had drawn host of bad men there, and
one night when jim drew his artillery il
Tom Best,s gambling-diye and began to
Lay on right and left he got ball in his
heart that forever fixed him.
'Ot the crowd, though, he killed four
hfst and manned for life three or foul
more. He was buried out in the foot
NUS near Helena. and for long timC
ana until It rotted away a plain PINE
BOARD marked his grave and bore thu
inscription:
,'----''.... Observation-Disclosures.